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Offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye had a searingly honest answer to Matt Barrows’s question about the adjustment the Jets had to make when they hired Brett Favre. Raye was the Jets’ running backs coach at the time. “The adjustment was monumental,” Raye said “It took us the month of September just to get used to the cadence.”

Raye also said Favre pitch, or in this case pass count during the week, affected the Jets’s continuity during games. While Raye wouldn’t speculate on how Favre is fitting in with Minnesota, one has to imagine the Vikings are going through similar pains. It might be the reason the Vikings and Favre have been so pedestrian against the Browns and Lions, who might be two of the worst teams in the league. It also makes you think the 49ers are going to completely sell out in stopping Adrian Peterson and allow Favre to beat them.

Will Brett Favre be doing this after Sunday’s game?

Undoubtedly, the Vikings are going to be doing the same thing. While this game is already billed as Peterson Vs. Frank Gore, in reality it will come down to Shaun Hill vs. Favre.

MCDONALD’S STORY: Just for Rob, I talked to Ray McDonald today. He’s still working through his Jan. 13 ACL surgery, which is his second. He tore his ACL his junior year and apparently the replacement ligament never attached properly and he played his entire senior season at Florida with it torn, possibly making him the only one ever to play football with a torn ACL.

During an exam at the scouting combine, doctors discovered the tear. The 49ers drafted him anyway and he continue to play with the tear until last year’s Giants game when his knee “shifted” during a pass rush. In order to prevent further damage from the knee moving, McDonald and the 49ers decided he should have the ligament repaired. Now McDonald is just over eight months into a recovery that typically takes a year.

Defensive coordinator Greg Manusky said McDonald is still working through his knee recovery and probably won’t be fully back until mid-season, an assessment with which McDonald agrees.

McDonald said the opener was the first time he really engaged in contact. So McDonald is playing on a recovering knee and without training camp and already has two sacks. Fans should be looking at McDonald as someone who could compete with Justin Smith and Parys Haralson for the team sack lead, not Manny Lawson.

FROWNS ABOUT SMILEY: Some asked about Justin Smiley and his contract. Smiley did want some big cake but when he started playing poorly in 2007, he probably would have accepted the 49ers offer, but the team reduced it. Smiley didn’t give up a sack in 2006, but he had one really bad game when he totally lost his technique and whiffed three straight times. He also had shoulder issues. In 2006, he played with a large tear in his shoulder that he sustained in the second game.

But overall, he’s been an excellent player, who’s good in pass protection and terrific in the run game. As a Dolphin, he’s looked upon as a leader and a reason for Miami’s turn around last year.

Part of the motivation for not signing Smiley was his size; they didn’t think he was big enough. It might have been the same rationale for releasing 305-pound Harvey Dahl, who’s now a starting guard in Atlanta, a team that finished second in rushing last year.